Janet Morana | All Articles

For years the lie has circulated widely that 1 in 3 women in the United States will have an abortion in her lifetime. It wasn’t true when it first surfaced in 2011 and it is certainly not true now, when abortions have fallen to their lowest rates since 1973’s Roe v. Wade travesty.

Tonya Reaves was 24 years old and engaged to be married when she went for a second-trimester abortion at a Planned Parenthood at 18 S. Michigan Avenue in Chicago. Her son, Alvin Jones, had just celebrated his first birthday. Why she felt she had no other choice than to end this child’s life by abortion, and why she waited so long, remain unanswered questions.

An organization calling itself Catholic Democrats is asking for the members of Donald Trump’s Catholic Advisory Group to resign over sexist and crude statements Mr. Trump made 11 years ago. I serve on that committee, and I will not resign.